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The tragedy here has levels. It's not just that the U.S. has terminated congressionally mandated USAID contracts covering all of our global tuberculosis programs, all supplies of emergency food packets around the world, and malaria supplies for 50 million ppl. It's also folks

A lot of people know deep down that the Trump Admin is behaving shamefully with regard to Ukraine, but don't want to admit, even to themselves, that America is being dishonorable, so they fixate on matters of no consequence, like Zelensky's manners, to distract their consciences

some news:

Super enjoyed this convo @doomeroptimism with Ashley Fitzgerald and Roxanne Ahern Ashley sums it up perfectly—the problem is spiritual Reminiscent of Christine Emba writing on this for The Atlantic last summer. Link that that piece below.

Incredibly depressing

For Commonweal Magazine, I reviewed 4 books (a memoir, poems, collected essays & a monograph) by Dana Gioia. The essay ended up becoming about culture, technology, and the future of the human race. 🧵

There are things that a printed newspaper can do that no website could ever do. This is magnificent.

Amazing "Required Reading" list for this week's podcast. This is what you get when you let Christine Emba, Shadi Hamid & Damir Marusic loose for an hour and a half.

The visuals coming out of Rome right now are why the Catholic Church remains one of the main characters of human history. You don't get this anywhere else.

You’d have to be okay with failing several semesters’ (maybe years?) worth of students to get the message across, which is a collective action problem for individual professors (who want to keep their jobs) and scary for schools (which want to keep enrollmen/tuition flowing in).

Catholicism — so hot right now! I talked to audie cornish about why: cnn.com/audio/podcasts…

Some of the many incredible writers/thinkers on Radiopaper who are available to be commissioned: Anna Louie Sussman, Shadi Hamid, Christine Emba, Bhaskar Sunkara, Matthew Schmitz, Susannah Black Roberts, Paul J. Pastor, Sohrab Ahmari, Anna Gát 🧭, Audrey Pollnow, Stephen G. Adubato, Zahra Hankir

Terrific piece on The Delusion of Porn's Harmlessness by my former editor Christine Emba. The idea that women's liberation would occur via sexual objectification was one of the more pernicious lies of the past few decades.

"As a society, we are allowing our desires to continue to be molded in experimental ways, for profit, by an industry that does not have our best interests at heart."

"In my own experience speaking to college students and young adults, they’re dismayed and discouraged by the role pornography has played in their sexual formation. In their eyes, it colors everything." - Christine Emba nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opi…

This, 100%

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An Abundance of ... what, exactly? Christine Emba reads ABUNDANCE in the wake of Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. wisdomofcrowds.live/p/an-abundance…